{"product_id":"american-wake-paperback","title":"American Wake - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKerrin McCadden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The poems, plainspoken distillations of origins and loss, explore histories, teasing at what we know without knowing, and know without remembering we know. A book of quiet, watchful radiance.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Must-read poetry.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew from a poet whose astonishing images, emotional honesty, and storytelling power hold a singular clarity of vision. \"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Wake\u003c\/i\u003e navigates loss with such unparalleled sensitivity and inventiveness that language becomes its own jubilant force of survival.\"--Major Jackson \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn \"American wake\" is what the Irish call a farewell to those emigrating to the United States. A New England poet equally at home in Ireland, Kerrin McCadden explores family, death and grief, apologies, and all manner of departures. In the poem \"In the Harbor,\" McCadden writes: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen we are out to sea, we look back to see faces\u003cbr\u003e ringing the shore like a fence, those we love in up\u003cbr\u003e to their hips in waves, waving goodbye like mad.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded in \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Wake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e are the poems, \"My Broken Family,\" \"Weeks After My Brother Overdoses,\" \"One Way to Apologize to a Daughter for Careless Words,\" \"Portrait of the Family as a Definition,\" and \"My Mother Talks to Her Son about Her Heart.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection by a writer of extraordinary gifts will appeal to readers who believe in the potential of carefully hewn words to unveil our world and our deepest feelings to ourselves. As the acclaimed memoirist Nick Flynn (\u003ci\u003eAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City\u003c\/i\u003e) puts it: \"Kerrin McCadden transforms tragedy into myth.\"\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351542350073,"sku":"9781574232479","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Uzh1UzU5WjZUc2tXMk83dkoxbzBtUT09.webp?v=1769800500","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/american-wake-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}